And they're not the only one. Local Walmart is installing something to take shopping to the next level:
Posted on 10/20/2017 11:17:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SEATTLE — Amazon.com has driven an economic boom in Seattle, bestowing more than 40,000 jobs upon a city known for Starbucks coffee and Seahawks fandom. Its growth remade a neglected industrial swath north of downtown into a hub of young workers and fixed the region, along with Microsoft before it, as a premier locale for the Internet economy outside Silicon Valley.
Seattle is the fastest-growing big city in the United States, a company town with construction cranes busily erecting new apartments for newly arriving tech workers. Google and Facebook have joined Amazon in putting large offices here.
When Amazon made a surprise announcement last month that it planned to open a second headquarters with even more jobs, it set off an unprecedented race among cities to lure the tech giant their way. Amazon said it will need 8 million square feet in a second region, making it the biggest economic development target in decades, experts say.
But as Seattleites will say, keeping up with the Internet juggernaut has not always been easy, providing a word of caution for officials from other cities willing to pursue the company at great expense....
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I’m betting on Texas on this one.
My city (San Antonio) was in the mix for Amazon Part Two. But backed away. Knowing it’ll probably go to Dallas.
But hey. If the next Amazon Part Two is ANYTHING like Seattle - then forget it.
It wouldn’t be worth it.
Yeesh!
Texas will probably get this.
but the mystery remains...just what useful, productive, profitable work could 50,000 new office clerk types perform to make hiring them all of a sudden worthwhile?
and...especially since the company refers to the entire scheme as redundant to its existing bloated HQ
there is something else going on here, other than just duplicating a big HQ operation... what successful corporation has duplicate Headquarters of this size, anyway? what if clerk 12,657 in Seattle says YES and clerk 47, 974 in Dallas, say, says NO?
instead of making Amazon more profitable, it will drain Amazons financial resources and screw up Amazon’s daily operations big=time
so....Bezos not being THAT stupid, just what (else) is he up to with this very stange proposal? Just what will his new 50,000 paperpushers actaully DO?
And low rent housing would become more expensive.
Seattle’s problem is the serious geographic/geologic limitations. There’s a whole lotta people trying to jam into very little usable space, narrowly distributed along peninsulas.
TX & GA have, on the whole, no such limitations. Atlanta sprawls, rather comfortably. As downtown has filled up, high-tech has moved up “the 400” to more spacious areas yet still can travel quickly without too much trouble. Major arteries can be slow, but plenty of roads spread between with no physical limitations of ocean or mountains.
Amazon says the average salary will be $100,000 a year.
That’s 100 people in management making big bucks, and 49,900 making 50K per year.
Accounting, Payroll, Human Resources, internal tech support, internal logistics, etc. etc. etc.
To some degree a 50K workforce requires its own back office support.
I know what you mean though. When you are working with huge multinationals like I do, sometimes you will look at a huge building or campuses and ask “what do all these people DO?” even when you are on your way to meet with some of the people that DO these things.
My guess is that, given Amazon's liberal bent, that you could be highly qualified, but if you were a white, middle class, Christian, you would have no chance at being one of the 50,000.
Driving around (and now being driven around) the Dallas/Ft Worth area, it amazes me how much vacant land there is.
I suspect Bezos is shopping for whichever city gives him enough tax credits, incentives, and other corporate welfare freebies.
Then - as usual - taxpayers will get screwed.
I’m just quoting Amazon. If you have inside information, fine.
With all the problems in Seattle, Amazon may be thinking of establishing the second headquarters as a staging place to pull out of Seattle. The greedy tax to the max Seattle Democrats are now proposing a head tax on employees. Amazon is their target. Imagine the cost of paying a $100/employee tax every year. Amazon had better hurry. The wolf is at their door.
Well, for one thing the real estate market goes bananas.
for example this place is a shack (but down the road from Microsoft):https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/34111-SE-43rd-St-Fall-City-WA-98024/49004794_zpid/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=emo-propalert-button&rtoken=d27c5d62-3794-415b-bc56-7948cdbcecbc~X1-ZUx3u8qn86mqdl_8gte6
And they're not the only one. Local Walmart is installing something to take shopping to the next level:
My guy told me he heard from someone at work that one concern was that most of those 50,000 workers were going to be brought in from out of state instead of being local hires-if true, that is not what an awful lot of people want to see happen-the idea is to get local people to work, not people from some other state-and most of us certainly don’t want more liberals infesting our states...
Looks like Amazon is considering Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Toronto or Boston.
They do not seem to be considering Detroit, Toledo or Des Moines.
Oh I understand. "Average" is a misleading term. And believing Amazon who is trying to negotiate their best deal with some city is not something I would bank on. But I'm an extraordinary skeptic.
50,000 families are going to pull up stakes and move to a red state? Doesn’t really pass the smell test.
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